Bomb in kitchen kills girl

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Police personnel inspect the blast site at Pangei in Imphal East on Thursday. (PTI)

Imphal, March 15: A minor girl was killed while five others, including three minor girls and two women, of two families, suffered splinter injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded at a rented house at Pangei of Imphal East this morning.

The injured were admitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal. Doctors said the condition of two of the minors was critical.

The additional superintendent of police, Imphal East, Ak. Jhaljit Singh, said the IED exploded inside the kitchen of the rented house around 9am and one minor, Pebam Bembem, 7, was killed instantly.